Interesting Pixilation/White wall? animation

I found this interesting video of a pixilation mixed with almost white board/wall animation incorporating moving camera to simulate video camera movement. It's an interesting mix of everything.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

City Scape 3D: stage 2

More added to the scape. 2 new sky scrapers, beginning on a park.

City Scape 3D: stage 1

With the basis of the tower model below, I used the greeble plug in again to create a plane into a city like model. Copying each plane I managed to create a 4 way block which has a cross roads in the middle. I plan on expanding the city, making different sections of the city such as parks etc. And by inputting and editing the tower model below I can create an interesting and deep city scape.

3D tower

Using a tutorial and the greeble plug in, I modeled this Tower using only a cylinder and the plug in. With this idea, I will begin to create a full blown city.

A 3D reactor

Deciding to try and get a head on the game of 3d Modelling, cause I would not like to get left in the dark, like what happened with flash. So after trying some animation with a biped below, I thought I would try out some tutorials on basic modeling. I used this tutorial: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/basic_modelling/basic_modelling_01.asp just to get an idea on some basic and simple techniques. Here is some of the renders I came up with:

Try out on 3Ds max

Deciding to try and get some practice with 3d modeling for the identities module I decided to try a bit out on some animation with a biped.

Interactive flash narrative - Drug Smuggler

Drug Smuggler by ~sharkTACKLE on deviantART

A bout of creativity

After finishing my flash narrative, I'm not too pleased on the aesthetics of it. While my major concern was narrative, my inexperience with flash caused the look of the piece to plummet. So to make myself feel better about it, I returned to my trusty photoshop to create something that I'm pleased with aesthetically, to get my confidence back up.


Come on Die Young

Update on Flash Narrative

I finally conquered Flash. So it can now go die in it's hole. Finally I've got the first few frames sorted. But i'm worried about the style of it, it's just a rehash of google images copied to do with my narrative. I'm worried that the look of the narrative is going to get me down marked, but at this very moment, i'm more concerned about getting the work done and then maybe looking at how to make the style of it better.

My first concern is getting the narrative down and getting it to make sense and have a somewhat of an involving story line. My second concern is getting the flash work done and getting the coding done so that each frame goes to where I want it to, or link right back to the beginning to start again. Style is my last concern at this moment, but I don't want it to look like a pile of shit. But i'm not getting massively marked on look, i'm getting marked on narrative which is on the forefront of my mind.

Thoughts on Interactive Flash Narrative

Before I actually get anywhere with this post, I'd like to show my great distate towards Flash. Now, I love Adobe, sometimes when you don't think of their extortionate prices. But Flash is probably the most obtuse, awkward and frustrating piece of software I have ever used. Fair enough programmes take a while to mess around with to get to the point of where you're fluent enough to do certain things. But thursday showed me that it's a piece of software which is going to take me ages to use. Adobe Premiere was a piece of cake, Adobe Photoshop is always a piece of cake, Adobe illustrator took me a while but I got there. But let's carry on with the main theme of this post.

My idea, that I came up somehow, somewhere, is that of a traveling story. The first frame and the main screen of the narrative is going to be that of a globe, where you can travel to any continent in the world. And from there you'll encounter some kind of stuff. I really don't know. I might make it a gangster/drug smuggling narrative where you could encounter the police, get put in prison, get killed, end up in hospital, get back to the airport and go somewhere else, go to other drug drop off points and keep smuggling. Obviously if you end up dead or in prison, you'll start the story again. It sounds very complicated, but I think each event will be seperate from another, so you'll eventually go through a series of events to then come back after a while back to the main screen or a certain frame where you can go somewhere else within the same narrative. My good ol friend Luke suggested i make the narrative educational where you'll travel the world and find out about different cultures.

While this isn't a bad idea, and it's a good tool for education, i don't find it too thrilling, while gangsters, danger, guns and drugs are. I'll keep this blog updated on my frustrations with flash, and hopefully my success and conquering of the frustrating software.

Evaluation of "The Meating"

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The Meating

Preparation and planning for "The meating"

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The piece of work above is by the artist Rebecca Patridge named “Love more.” The artist has used colour and consequently light in a very interesting way, using the translucent qualities of the colour has given the piece of work an aura of light working from the outside to the inside allowing the colour to slowly solidify as you travel towards the centre of the piece. The use of translucent colours on the outside gives the edges of the painting a soft approach where the colours start to harden in the centre.

The range of colours used in the piece offer the piece a strange psychedelic appearance, while the colours used do not contract with each other, the opaqueness of the colours are what offer the contrast to the piece itself. The use of this effect draws you straight into the centre of the artwork as you follow the shapes painted from the points to the top of the cones of colour, allowing you to work your eyes from the centre to the outside of the piece. The artist has purposely used the colour and lighting of the piece to do this so your eyes cover the whole piece, and while attracted to the centre, you follow it from inside to out, and not just concentrating on smaller parts of the piece.

Autopsy

The practical assignment on thursday was to take a series of shots from the intro of a horror film sequence. While each group was given a mood to portray with these shots, the mood my group had to portray was that one of silent and sombre. This was extremely difficult as the whole sequence of shots was a conversation between 2 people about the death of a relative. And to condense down upwards of 10 minutes of footage down into 1 minute full of silence to show a conflict between these 2 people was extremely difficult. This was what I came up with:

Why is it that we want our belongings to do more for us than just function well?

While the function of a multimedial device and any other electronic belonging is the forefront and the reason why we purchase such devides, there are other things we want our devices to possess. The one second to functionality is the design and aesthetics of the product. Many of us will pick a design and aesthetic that suit us as individuals, as many modern day devices are fashion objects. They define us as a certain fashion and our devices ascend into that function. The pictures above and below show my mobile phone, the Samsung F480. While I decided to buy this product for the functionality of the touch screen, meaning less mechanical parts to break and so the function of the device continues to be superb. But there was more of a conscious decision for the purchase of this device besides the functionality. The design and aesthetics of the device are sleek and fashionable, the flawless screen and the almost lack of buttons give it a seamless look.



Why are we willing as soon as we can afford it, to pay extra for thing with appealing form?

The exact same reason as to why we want our belongings to do more than just function for us. Most modern day devices such as phones, mp3 players, games consoles, jewellery etc are there for fashion and status. They define who we are, and we are willing to pay more for that symbol of status and wait to be able to afford it instead of getting something which is inferior and subpar.

Pixilation practical production

Past Audio Visual production projects

This was a end of year 13 project which I put together for my form. It's a spoof of "It's raining men" by Gerri Halliwell and had one of the best times filming, editing and producing this piece of work. It's one of my finest to date.



This was my year 13 media coursework production. While not my best work, it was the first longest film I made.

OLED's

While OLED's are not a direct recent multimedia technology, their application and constant development integrated into multimedia appliances has only recently come about. In recent times there has been a new fashion of applying OLED (organic light emitting diode) into mobile phone handsets, which gives the display a clearer and much better viewing in broad day light and the viewing angles meaning that the display appears brighter and colours do not get washed out as easily. Soon enough, the OLED display will give developers a major form of control on the thickness of their handsets as OLED displays are significant thinner. And while the discovery of OLED's is not that significantly recent, its only really just come about into the market, especially with the release of the new Nokia N-series mobile the N85 which has the largest OLED display yet (2.6 inches). However, there is more to the application of the OLED than just the display market.

Due to the nature of the OLED's, it will have a massive impact on society when it becomes mass marketed and produced OLED displays do not consume as much energy. This is because when there is black on the display, the OLED signals are off which gives off no energy for black area's while a standard LCD display will just dampen the LED to give off the black. Also, OLED's do not need a backlight which other displays due such as the aforementioned LCD. Because of this, the impact that it will have on society will be massive due to the growing concern on carbon footprints and the consumption and consequent wastage of energy and electricity. If OLED's are applied into more mass produced technologies then the total energy wastage will be severely improved.

Not only is the the development of the OLED beneficial to the environment, but other future applications of it for the multmedia world can be considered. Due to the nature of the OLED display, it could be applied to pliable materials and media forms such as newspapers which could be a single sheet of printed OLED's which are then foldable, which each page being able to changed to the next page. This then could be converged with touch screen technology to make a multi-interactive application which could be used for future gaming consoles and further developments in the mobile handset market.

References and further information:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/oled5.htm

http://www.about-oled.com/advantages-and-drawbacks.html

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/oled3.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-emitting_diode

What did I do on the first week?
The first week was just about me getting situated into a new strange place and getting to know my flat mates who I would be living with for a year. After copious amounts of alcohol, socialising with everyone became easy. In short, what I did in my first week was enjoy myself and know that I will enjoy it here for the rest of my 3 years.

What do I want to get out of the course after the 3 years?
After the 3 years, I don't want to just come out of the course with a broad skill set in various areas of multimedia. I want to become a multimedia practioner which the course has taught me how to easily transcend my creative and interactive ideas into coming applicable and enjoyable to either watch or apply in what ever means it was designed for. I want to be able to apply my imagination and creativity into many projects during the 3 years, and after the course has finished, then continue this process into other freelancing or commision based work.